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Dear BLPB Readers:

“The University of Michigan Law School invites junior scholars to attend the 9th Annual Junior Scholars Conference, which will take place in person on April 21-22, 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference provides junior scholars with a platform to present and discuss their work with peers, and to receive detailed feedback from senior members of the Michigan Law faculty. The Conference aims to promote fruitful collaboration between participants and to encourage their integration into a community of legal scholars. The Junior Scholars Conference is intended for academics in both law and related disciplines. Applications from graduate students, SJD/PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, lecturers, teaching fellows, and assistant professors (pre-tenure) who have not held an academic position for more than four years, are welcome.

Applications are due by January 9, 2023.”
 

Dear BLPB Readers:

“The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will host its annual Wharton Financial
Regulation Conference on April 14, 2023.

We issue a call for papers to any scholars from any discipline—law, economics, political science,
history, business, and beyond—to submit papers on any topic related to financial regulation,
broadly construed. Special attention will be paid to junior scholars and those new to the financial
regulation community, but we welcome all submissions, including from those who have presented
before.

To submit a paper, please include an unpublished manuscript not exceeding 25,000 words and a CV
to conference organizer David Zaring, by February 1, 2023. Selected presenters will be notified by
email by February 15, 2023.”

The call for papers is also Download 2023 Wharton Fin Reg Call for Papers.

The Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2023 Issue of Volume XXVIII.  As one of the premier student-edited business law journals in the country, the Journal ranks among the top-five specialty journals in banking and financial law, and among the top-ten specialty journals in corporate and securities law.

The Journal welcomes articles and essays addressing important issues in banking, bankruptcy, corporate governance, capital markets, finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and tax law and practice.

Please send all submissions to either our Scholastica page or our email at jcfl@fordham.edu. For consideration in our Spring 2023 Issue, kindly send in your submissions by Friday, December 14th, 2022.

For more information regarding submissions, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please contact Brendan Finnerty, Senior Articles Editor, at bfinnerty6@fordham.edu.

Dear BLPB Readers:

“The AALS Section of Financial Institutions & Consumer Financial Services will host the first AALS FinReg Conference on November 4, 2022, in-person, at the Antonin Scalia Law School, in Arlington, Virginia.”

The deadline to submit a paper or abstract for consideration is October 16, 2022.  The complete call for papers is here: Download AALS_GMU_Call_for_paper

Jim Park, Chair of the Section on Business Associations of the Association of American Law Schools recently sent section members a reminder message relating to submissions for the section’s program for the 2023 Annual Meeting.  The extended deadline for submissions is Tuesday.  I blogged about the call for papers back in May (the post includes the entire initial call for papers) and am including an excerpted version of Jim’s recent message below for ease of reference.

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Dear Members of the AALS Business Associations Section:

I am writing to let you know that the deadline for submitting a paper for presentation at our program in San Diego on January 4, 2023 has been extended to Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The topic of the program is Corporate Governance in a Time of Global Uncertainty. Please send all submissions to Mira Ganor at mganor@law.utexas.edu with the words “AALS – BA- Paper Submission” in the subject line of your submission email. . . .

Thanks, Jim

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I hope folks whose research addresses the call will send along their work for consideration.  The annual meeting program often is a great way to jumpstart the new semester and…

Dear BLPB Readers:

“CALL FOR PAPERS
BUSINESS ETHICS AND THE FUTURE OF WORK

The Center for Ethics, Diversity, and Workplace Culture in the Fox School of Business at Temple University, the Center for Legal Studies & Business Ethics in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, and the American Business Law Journal to Cohost 2023 Symposium:

Business Ethics and the Future of Work

The Center for Ethics, Diversity, and Workplace Culture, the Center for Legal Studies and Business Ethics, and the American Business Law Journal (ABLJ) welcome submissions on business ethics and the future of work. The ABLJ is rated an A journal on the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list and is the premier peer-reviewed research journal in business law. The symposium theme is consistent with 2020 AACSB Standard 9. The ABLJ anticipates publishing a special issue devoted to the symposium theme.

The societal, economic, cultural, and public health challenges and opportunities of the last decade have dramatically altered the ways that workers around the globe conceive of their work and the workplace. The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter Movements, the global pandemic, innovations in technology and artificial intelligence, and a resurgence of labor organizing…

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Financial Restructuring Roundtable
Call for Papers 

The Financial Restructuring Roundtable (formerly the West Coast Bankruptcy Roundtable) will be held in person on April 6, 2023 in New York City. Spearheaded by Tony Casey, Samir Parikh, Robert Rasmussen, and Michael Simkovic, this invitation-only event brings together practitioners, jurists, scholars, and finance industry professionals to discuss important financial restructuring and business law issues. 

The Roundtable invites the submission of papers. Selected participants will receive a $2,000 stipend and have the opportunity to workshop their papers in an intimate, collegial setting. Last year’s attendees included Ken Ayotte, Douglas Baird, Bruce Bennett, Jared Ellias, Anna Gelpern, Marshall Huebner, Ed Morrison, Mark Roe, David Skeel, and Jamie Sprayregen. 

We seek papers exploring diverse topics and will be interested in interdisciplinary perspectives. Papers will be selected through a blind review process. Scholars are invited to submit a 3 – 5 page overview of a proposed paper. Submissions may be an introduction, excerpt from a longer paper, or extended abstract. The submission should be anonymized, and – aside from general citations to the author’s previous articles – all references to the author should be removed.

Please submit proposals by October 1, 2022. Invitations will be…

Dear BLPB readers:

“Fifth Conference on Law and Macroeconomics
October 20-21, 2022 (virtual)

The macroeconomic instability of the 2020s continues to fuel economic, social, and political
turmoil worldwide and to recast our understanding of law and macroeconomics. The ongoing crisis
has opened up new and vitally important research opportunities. As we press on towards pandemic
recovery and confront new challenges, the Fifth Conference on Law and Macroeconomics will
focus on the law’s role in shaping a sustainable and resilient macroeconomy and on the role of
macroeconomic policy in national, regional, and global governance.”

September 15, 2022 is the deadline for submitting papers for consideration.  The conference website and complete call for papers is here.

This came in from our student editor and faculty friends at Penn Law:

The University of Pennsylvania Law Review will host its annual symposium on Friday, October 7, 2022, in-person. This year’s topic, “Debt Market Complexity: Shadowed Practices and Financial Injustice,” will explore the rise of increasingly complicated debt structures associated with private equity. We are issuing a call for papers for publication in the Law Review’s corresponding symposium issue.

To submit a paper for consideration, please provide an abstract no longer than 750 words to symposium@pennlawreview.com by July 31, 2022. If selected for publication, completed drafts will be due January 1, 2023. 

The complete call for papers, which includes more detail, is available here.

This looks like a great topic for a program!  I know many of you out there work routinely in the debt space from a variety of perspectives.  I hope you will consider submitting.

Dear Section Members —

On behalf of the Executive Committee for the AALS section on Business Associations, I’m writing with details of our two sessions at the 2023 AALS Annual Meeting, which will be held in San Diego, CA from January 4-7, 2023.

First, our main program is entitled, “Corporate Governance in a Time of Global Uncertainty.” We anticipate selecting up to two papers from this call for papers. To submit, please submit an abstract or a draft of an unpublished paper to Professor Mira Ganor, mganor@law.utexas.edu, on or before Friday, August 19, 2022. Authors should include their name and contact information in their submission email but remove all identifying information from their submission. Please include the words “AALS – BA- Paper Submission” in the subject line of your submission email.

Second, we are excited to announce that we will again hold a “New Voices in Business Law” program, which will bring together junior and senior scholars in the field of business law for the purpose of providing junior scholars with feedback and guidance on their draft articles. Junior scholars who are interested in participating in the program should send a draft or summary of at least five…